Our Honest Review of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Dill Pickle

First it was Vlasic Pickle Balls (which will soon be joined by Spicy Pickle Balls), now Frito-Lay has dropped Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos. From what they’ve said on Instagram, they will not be around for very long, but I was able to secure a bag at Walmart after a few weeks of hunting! As both a Flamin’ Hot enjoyer and a pickle enjoyer, I feel it is my duty to crack these open and let you know if they are worth hunting down for yourself.

New Cheetos Flavor!

Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos

Walmart

Pros: This new Cheetos flavor is certainly Flamin’ Hot. It does not hold back on the signature spice that you expect from the Flamin’ Hot brand. I’ve never met a Flamin’ Hot product I don’t like and I have also never met Crunchy Cheetos I don’t like. And the Cheetos definitely smell like dill pickle when you first open the bag. But…

Cons: The dill pickle flavor is nowhere close to where I want it to be. It is very muted and very subtle. If you eat a bunch of them in rapid succession or shove a handful in your mouth, then you get the pickle flavor a little bit more. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed. I was expecting the Cheetos to be flavor blasted with dill pickle flavor and they just aren’t. On the completely subjective pickle flavor scale, these come in somewhere around a three and I wish it was closer to a seven or an eight. I won’t go as far to say that these new Cheetos are bad, because I do enjoy them, but I can’t help but wonder how top tier they’d be if there was more pickle flavor.

Credit: Liv Averett / Walmart

Rating:

6/10

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